Is it possible to have eclipse launch an external program, for example acrobat reader, programmatically from a plugin? For example, I want to create a menu that when the user clicks it it will open a PDF file in the file system by launching Acrobat Reader outside of Eclipse - or more importantly just sending the file open command to windows to let windows decide what to do with it (based on file extension to program mappings). Is this possible? Please point me in the right direction - thanks a lot!